Purpose: What effect you want the text to have on your audience (e.g., to inform, to persuade, to move emotions)


What do you think is the purpose of the text below? What makes you think so?

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Audience: For whom a text seems to be intended (e.g., teenagers, new homeowners, parents of college students)


Who is the audience for the text below? How do you know?

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Genre: What kind or category a text seems to belong to (e.g., advertisement, reality TV show, Greek tragedy)












Engagement: What effect you want the text to have on you (e.g., to sort out thoughts/feelings, to try out a writing technique).













What's changed in the texts below--purpose, audience, genre, engagement (or all four?)


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